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FIRE Festival will back to Barcelona! Fire is ​​the International Film Festival of gay and lesbian films. The new edition of FIRE! will take place from 2 to 13 July will take place in Barcelona. The event invites you to celebrate hedonism and attitude of ‘Glam’ as an expression of freedom. With the motto ‘We can […]

The City Council has launched a new mobile app called Fonts Bcn, which you can download on your mobile or smartphone. It allows you to locate the city’s fountains, find the nearest one and see how to get there, consult the street map and obtain basic information about all the drinking fountains. And you can […]

Barcelona could become one of the “7 Wonder Cities” of the world in 2014 Next year could see Barcelona become a “Wonder City”. The Catalan capital has been chosen as one of the 28 finalists to become one of the “7 Wonder Cities” of the world, an initiative created by the Swiss foundation New 7 […]

Architecture once again obtained excellent results Last year, tourist evaluations of Barcelona attained unprecedented levels. The figures for 2012 rose to 8.41 points, on a scale of 1 to 10.The overall score awarded to the Catalan capital surpassed the 8.28 awarded in 2011 and 8.14 in 2010, reflecting a clear upward trend. The scores given […]

A Happy city According to the conclusions of a survey by GFK Custom Research, involving 10,000 people in 29 countries, only Rio de Janeiro and Sydney are happier than Catalonia’s capital. Barcelona is the third happiest city in the world. This is the conclusion that is drawn from a survey carried out by GFK Custom […]